The unthinkable became the thinkable today: the Supreme Court rejected Guantanamo tribunals. This is a direct repudation of the Bush administration and their strategy against terror ‘combatants’ turned ‘detainees’. Next, the Supreme Court decides on whether the Bush administration has the power to shut down the New York Times.

We now know that the earth is melting (and that means plenty of free polar bear carcasses if you live in the Boston area). But how do we solve it? With crazy proposals from Ivy League institutions, of course:

Dr. Broecker of Columbia proposed doing so by lacing the stratosphere with tons of sulfur dioxide, as erupting volcanoes occasionally do. The injections, he calculated in the 80’s, would require a fleet of hundreds of jumbo jets and, as a byproduct, would increase acid rain.

Those damn hippies are at it again! Time reports on how San Francisco plans to provide universal health care to all of its citizens that are not normally covered. Once again, liberals have proven they hate freedom by not sidestepping responsibility under the guise of the free market.

In international news, Time talks about renewed Japanese nationalism (i.e. they want to start militarizing again) and how it is complicating the love affair between Japan and the US. AEI, a prominent conservative think tank, wonders aloud about the democratization efforts in Egypt that have evaporated while the US sits idly by. While Egypt falls further back into autocracy, Kuwait had elections today, which included women, one of the first for Arab countries. And of course, Israel and Palestine are at it again.

And in the funny moment of the day, Christian tourists were attacked by ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel. I imagine one hundred clumsy monkey-hat wearers stumbling over one another to throw sissy punch after sissy punch. All this with our endless life cycle, lightbulbs in anus’, and chocolate penis’.